Collapsible wire basket.



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ATTORNEYS Patented May 21, 1912.

L. POPPERT. GOLLAPSIBLE WIRE BASKET; I 1221101111011 11mm 1211.29, 1911.

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MsW '1 v ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LILLI N POPPERT, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF T0 RICHARD A.

KIRK, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON.

COLLAPSIBLE WIRE BASKET.

Application filed April 28, 1911. Serial No. 628,882.

To cZZ whom it may concern:

of, Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Collapsible Wire Basket, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exa'ct description.

My invention relates to a new 'and' improved form of folding wire basket, and an object of my invention is to provide a basket, the several parts of which may be collapsed to form a neat, economically arranged structure and one which cannot be accidentally collapsed when in use.

I attain the above outlined object by disposing a rigid bottom section on a pair of U-shaped side arms, which bottom section is adapted to beraised on the arms to the upper edge of the basket, the sides of which are pivoted tosaid upper edge and the'ends of which are pivoted to the bottom section.

With the above and other objects in view, as will more fully hereinafter appear, the present invention consists in certain novel details of construction and arran ement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and moreparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference-isto be had to the accompany- "ing drawings, forming a part of this specification, in' which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, and in wh1ch- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a referred embodiment of my invention; ig. 2 is a plan View looking down on Fig.

1 with the sides omitted for clearness; Fig.

3 is an end view of the frame of the basket as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a similar view with the frame' collapsed, Fig. 5 is a side view of the frame of the basket shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 6 is a view similar to 5 but showing the basket in collapsed position.

Described more in detail I have shown a bottom section 7 comprising .a rectangleshaped endless wiring 8, bent upon itself at each change of direction to form an end eye 9, .and bent upon itself intermediate the length of each edge to form a side eye 10. At each side of the basket and pass ng through each of the end eyes 9 is a rectangular U-shaped side wire 11. The eyes 9 are bent downwardand outward, as shown, so as .to position the end wires of the bottom 7 above the supporting surface. The upper end of each of the legs 12 of this wire 11 is bent into a hook 13, each of which hooks engages a rectangular upper edge wire 14 adacent each of the corners. Depending from each side of the upper wire 14'is a series of spaced-apart rods 16, the opposite ends of which are bent into upper hooks l7 and lower hooks 18, said upper hooks 17 engaging side member 11.

When the bottom 7 is raised, it will be seen that the two side members are free to swing on the upper wire 14 and may .be folded in under the member 8. The sides formed by the members 16, 19 and 14 are inclosed by a mesh construction 20. Pivoted to each end of the wire 8 is an end section formed by a rectangular U-shaped rod 21,

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the wire 14 and said lower hooks engag- ;ing a bottom member 19 of the U-shaped each leg of which is bent into a hook 22 engaging the wire 8 adjacent each of its ends between the, eyes 9. Theends formed by the wire Sand the U 21, are covered with a mesh construction 23. From the upper central portion of the U 21 depends an outwardlyand downwardly-turned'catch 24, adapted when the basket is assembled, to fit over the wire 14, to prevent said end sections from collapsing inwardly;

Pivoted to the upper wire 14 is a pair of I I bails 25,. adapted to be collapsed upon the top of the assembled sections, as shown in Figs. 4 and 6.

' Many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the. scope thereof. It is intended that all mat ters contained herein in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be'interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is also to be understood that the language used in the fol lowing claims is merely intended to cover all the genericandspecific features of the I invention herein described, and all state .ments of the scope of the invention, which,

as a matter of language might be said to fall therebetween, and that materials, sizes and relativities of parts are non-essential, except as called for in the claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-- ters Patent:

1. A collapsible basket, comprising an upper rectangle-shaped wire, a pair of U- shaped Wires pivotally connected to said rectangle-shaped wire, a bottom section disposed in a plane parallel to the plane of said rectangular wire and slidable upwardly upon said U-shaped wires, end sections pivoted to said bottom section, and means ,connecting said end sections with said rectangle-shaped wire.

2. A collapsible basket, comprising an upper rectangle-shaped wire, a pair of U- shaped wires pivotally connected to said rectangle-shaped Wire, a bottom section disposed in a plane parallel to the plane of said rectangular wire and slidable upwardly upon said U-shaped wires, means whereby said U-shaped wires may fold under said bottom section when in its raised position, end sections pivoted to said bottom section and adapted to fold inwardly on top of said bottom section, and a woven fabric covering each of said sections.

3. A collapsible basket, comprising an up per rectangle-shaped wire, apair of U- shaped wires pivotally connected to said rectangle-shaped wire, 'a bottom section disposed in a plane parallel to the plane of said rectangular wire and slidable upwardly upon said U-shaped wires, means whereby said U-shaped wires may fold under said bottom section when in its raised position, end sections pivoted to said bottom section and adapted to fold inwardly on top of said bottom section, a Woven fabric covering each of said sections, and awoven fabric bridging the space formed between said U- shaped wires.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

M. W. HUNT, JESSE G. POPPERT. 

